Leonard Smalls

Knowing that narrowboating and drum'n'bass go together like Chas'n'Dave I've done some jazzy fretless noodling. Roni Size eat yer heart out! 😁😎🤘 Lots of C chords on the Johanna (Ableton stock sound), with chromatic noodling on fretless lightwave Sabre bass. Bass is clean, plus 2 tracks through 2 patches of Future Impact. Extra synth is Bloom vocal synth and Iris bass synth with fretless track rendered to midi to trigger 'em. Drums are programmed through Ableton's Phat and Flat and FADL kits. All mixed in Doblys with a good dollop of Raum, Dubstation and Objeq delays then all smeared in Ozone 9 and Neutron 3.

Cast A Long Shadow - The Monochrome Set

My Girl - Madness

Nazi Goths F Off -Suzi Sabotage

Don't Fake The Funk - prince Charles and the City Beat Band

My favourite haiku, courtesy of the great Dr John Cooper Clarke: To freeze a moment In seventeen syllables Is very difi

Funky Worm - Ohio Players

First time we played the old Powerhaus in Islington we did our soundcheck, discovered we were all starving so headed round the corner to an all-you-can-eat Indian buffet. In order to get out moneysworth we took them at their word and ate more than we thought possible. Which turned out to be foolish as none of us could move and had to have chairs on stage. This might have been OK if we were a jazz band, but we were a high-energy punk-funk band, complete with two painters who painted us with fluorescent paint as we tried to play and not to gag... And we got grief for the painty chairs - we had to scrub 'em! Still, we played there again and at all the other mean Fiddler venues...

Police Truck - Dead Kennedys

We used to have a roadie called Paul who had a hand-painted black transit van that had a top speed of about 50mph... We were playing in Exeter, iirc, and drove back to London slowly. All of us were a bit knacked (and possibly lubricated - there'd been a couple of cases of beer for us!) so the band all fell asleep on top of the amps'n'cabs in the back. I woke up quite a while later to discover we were in the middle of nowhere, no motorway anywhere in site, just very dark countryside. Turns out that Paul, who looked a bit like Camberwell Carrot man in Withnail and I (and usually had something similar in his mouth) had this thing where he'd follow the line on the left of the road. With us all asleep he'd done that and now we were on a single track lane somewhere in Oxfordshire. From then on we made sure someone was always awake to keep him on the correct road!

There's loads of bands. You just have to go out and find 'em! We're playing Rebellion this year, there's well over 300 bands playing ranging from 60+ OG punks to spotty 18 year olds. And that's just one punk fest - check all the others, there's a few more than plenty! As for charts, we haven't even registered our songs - you have to pay extra!

Deep in the woods - The Birthday Party

Overkill - Motorhead

Rocks, Pebbles And Sand - Stanley Clarke

Physical Love - Bootsy's Rubber Band

Hasn't worked at all for me - still trying to reset the security question that I can't remember the answer to!

Definitely! 😁 We're far too old to be up to our elbows in tappits on the side of the M1... However, the whole song is up for a sneaky peaky: https://weeds2.bandcamp.com/track/angels-one-five

Red Frame White Light - OMD

I used to work with him in BBC sound! Anyway: Big Spliff - Black Uhuru

Maggie - The Exploited (NB is a bit sweary )

Alles Arschlöcher - MEGAHERZ

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I'm a great fan of Dumstaphunk and Eric...Funky as!

It must have been years - Tubeway Army

Toilet on the sea - Stranglers